You don’t need more time.
You need more focus.
~ Stoic wisdom
Step lightly
Love is thin ice.
~ written on a bracelet found on a dead man washed ashore in Acapulco, in Love Has Many Faces (starring Lana Turner as the dead man's former lover, Kit)
I can't see!
The most dangerous form of blindness is believing that your perspective is the only reality.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Movement
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
~ Alfred Adler
I'm doomed...
The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life.
~ Naval Ravikant
Grandma wisdom
My Grandma said that, in life, there are only two things you have to worry about:
Are you are healthy or are you are sick?
If you are healthy, you have nothing to worry about.
If you are sick, then you have two things to worry about:
Will you will get better or will you get worse?
If you will get better, then you have nothing to worry about.
If you will get worse, then you have two things to worry about:
Are you going to live or are you going to die?
If you will live, then you have nothing to worry about.
If you will die, then you have two things to worry about:
Will you go to heaven, or will you go to hell?
If you go to heaven, then you have nothing to worry about.
If you go to hell, then you have two things to worry about:
Original or extra crispy?
Buzz buzz
A bee does not waste its energy trying to convince a fly that honey is better than shit.
Some minds are not meant to be changed.
Save your energy for what actually matters.
The Story of MacGregor the Scotsman
A Drunk starts talking to a tourist in a Scottish pub.
He says “Do you see that dock over there? I built that myself, stone by stone. But do they call me MacGregor the dock builder?”
“No.”
“Do you see that bridge over there? I built that too! But do they call me MacGregor the bridge builder?”
“No.”
“But you fuck one sheep…”
Two, not three - the paradox of choice
There's a story about a shoe salesman in Los Angeles in the 1950s, a very successful entrepreneur who owned a string of women's shoe stores.
A journalist asked him, "What's your secret?"
And he said, "Two, not three."
The journalist says, "What do you mean?"
The shoe salesman said, "If a woman comes into my store, I'll bring her a pair of shoes. She'll try them on."
"And she'll say, 'Can I see that pair please?' And I'll bring out second pair of shoes."
"And then she'll say, 'Can also I see that pair please?'"
And he'll say, "Which pair would you like me to take away?"
You see, he found was that, when the customer had a choice of three, they bought none. And when they had their choice of two, they bought one.
Two, not three.
Too much choice is overwhelming.
Learn from Scott Adams
The Day You Became A Better Writer
I went from being a bad writer to a good writer after taking a one-day course in “business writing.” I couldn’t believe how simple it was. I’ll tell you the main tricks here so you don’t have to waste a day in class.Business writing is about clarity and persuasion. The main technique is keeping things simple. Simple writing is persuasive.A good argument in five sentences will sway more people than a brilliant argument in a hundred sentences. Don’t fight it. Simple means getting rid of extra words. Don’t write, “He was very happy” when you can write “He was happy.” You think the word “very” adds something. It doesn’t. Prune your sentences.Humor writing is a lot like business writing. It needs to be simple. The main difference is in the choice of words. For humor, don’t say “drink” when you can say “swill.”Your first sentence needs to grab the reader. Go back and read my first sentence to this post. I rewrote it a dozen times. It makes you curious. That’s the key.Write short sentences. Avoid putting multiple thoughts in one sentence. Readers aren’t as smart as you’d think.Learn how brains organize ideas. Readers comprehend “the boy hit the ball” quicker than “the ball was hit by the boy.” Both sentences mean the same, but it’s easier to imagine the object (the boy) before the action (the hitting). All brains work that way. (Notice I didn’t say, “That is the way all brains work”?)That’s it. You just learned 80% of the rules of good writing. You’re welcome.
~ Scott Adams (RIP January 13, 2026)
Even now, I can still remember feeling love like this - a long time ago.
August
Salt air, and the rust on your door
I never needed anything more
Whispers of "Are you sure?"
"Never have I ever before"
[Chorus]
But I can see us lost in the memory
August slipped away into a moment in time
'Cause it was never mine
And I can see us twisted in bedsheets
August sipped away like a bottle of wine
'Cause you were never mine
[Verse 2]
Your back beneath the sun
Wishin' I could write my name on it
Will you call when you're back at school?
I remember thinkin' I had you
[Chorus]
But I can see us lost in the memory
August slipped away into a moment in time
'Cause it was never mine
And I can see us twisted in bedsheets
August sipped away like a bottle of wine
'Cause you were never mine
[Bridge]
Back when we were still changin' for the better
Wanting was enough
For me, it was enough
To live for the hope of it all
Cancel plans just in case you'd call
And say, "Meet me behind the mall"
So much for summer love and saying "us"
'Cause you weren't mine to lose
You weren't mine to lose, no
[Chorus]
But I can see us lost in the memory
August slipped away into a moment in time
'Cause it was never mine
And I can see us twisted in bedsheets
August sipped away like a bottle of wine
'Cause you were never mine
[Outro]
'Cause you were never mine
Never mine
But do you remember?
Remember when I pulled up and said "Get in the car"
And then canceled my plans just in case you'd call?
Back when I was livin' for the hope of it all, for the hope of it all
"Meet me behind the mall"
(Remember when I pulled up and said "Get in the car")
(And then canceled my plans just in case you'd call?)
(Back when I was livin' for the hope of it all, for the hope of it all)
("Meet me behind the mall")
Remember when I pulled up and said "Get in the car"
And then canceled my plans just in case you'd call?
Back when I was livin' for the hope of it all (For the hope of it all)
For the hope of it all, for the hope of it all
(For the hope of it all, for the hope of it all)
~ Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff
20 Sentences to stop overthinking
Here are 20 Sentences to Stop Overthinking by Nir Eyal.
Use these one-liners as mantras when your brain won't switch off.
- I don't need certainty to act.
- If it's reversible, I decide fast.
- I choose one next step, not ten.
- I don't solve feelings; I surf them.
- My thoughts are not instructions.
- Action creates clarity, not thought.
- I write it down so my brain can rest.
- I'm allowed to move with partial info.
- I give myself a deadline, then choose.
- I ask, "What's the next visible action?"
- I schedule thinking so that I don't spiral.
- I trade rumination for one small experiment.
- I let future-me correct, not present-me freeze.
- I'm aiming for progress, not the perfect plan.
- I ask, "What would this look like if it were easy?"
- I accept that some questions stay open while I move.
- I notice loops and ask, Is this helping or just hindering?"
- I'm the kind of person who stops rehearsing and starts doing.
- If it won't matter in 5 years, it doesn't get this much brainspace.
- I'd rather be roughly right in motion than stuck "perfecting" ideas.
~ from the interwebs
Wordy, but profound -
The distance between deciding and doing is the single most reliable predictor of whether your life will be extraordinary or ordinary. Not talent, not circumstances, not even the quality of your decisions—but how quickly you collapse the space between intention and reality. Think of this gap as a kind of friction coefficient on your existence: the smaller it is, the more of your internal force actually translates into external motion. When you can move from "I should do this" to physically doing it within hours instead of weeks, you're not just accomplishing more—you're operating in a fundamentally different mode of being where your thoughts have immediate consequences in the world, where your inner life and
outer life are in constant, tight conversation.
This matters profoundly because success isn't really about outcomes—it's about iteration speed. The person who can decide and act in the same breath gets ten attempts at something while someone with a week-long gap between decision and execution gets one.They fail faster, learn faster, course-correct faster, and compound their advantages faster. More crucially, they remain in contact with reality. When your decisions meet the world immediately, you get immediate feedback about whether they were good decisions. You can't hide in comfortable delusions about what you would do or could do because you're constantly discovering what you actually do. This brutal, liberating honesty with reality is what separates people who achieve extraordinary things from people who have
extraordinary intentions.
The ultimate insight is that shrinking this gap isn't just correlated with success —it might be the most honest definition of success we have. Because what is success except proof that you actually lived according to your own values and vision? That you were who you said you were? Every moment between decision and action is a moment of self-betrayal, a small death where a possible version of you fails to be born.
Successful people have built lives with almost no lag between recognition and response, between seeing what needs doing and doing it. They've achieved something most people never do: they've synchronized their two selves—the one who knows and the one who acts—into a single, undivided person
moving through the world with uncommon force.
~ from the inter webs
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